The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South
The Beautiful South 2006
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1988
resolution	2007
Founding members
singing	Paul D. Heaton
singing	Dave Hemingway
bass	Sean Welch
guitar	David Rotheray
Drums	David Stead
former members
singing	Briana Corrigan (1990-1994)
singing	Jacqueline "Jacqui" Abbott (1994-2000)
singing	Alison Wheeler (2001-2007)

The Beautiful South was a British pop band that was formed in the late 1980s and hit the charts numerous times .

history

The Beautiful South emerged from the band The Housemartins in late 1988 . The singers were Paul Heaton and Housemartins drummer David Hemingway . Dave Stead became the drummer. Other members were Sean Welch (bass), David Rotheray (guitar) and, from 1990, Briana Corrigan as an additional singer (the latter had already worked as a background singer).

The name "The Beautiful South" can also be traced back to the Housemartins:

“The name The Beautiful South was chosen because as The Housemartins we had become real Wurzels of Hull , professional Northeners. Even if you don't act like that, that's still how you come across to a lot of people. Although it gives you some ground initially, in the end people don't take you seriously - you're not taken seriously because you're from Hull. "

“The name The Beautiful South was chosen because, as The Housemartins, we had become real veterans of Hull, professional northern lights. Even if you don't act like that, you still seem like that to a lot of people. Although that gives you a certain grounding at first, in the end people no longer take you seriously - you are not taken seriously because you are from Hull. "

- Paul Heaton, 1991 in Q magazine

The group landed their first hit in May 1989 with the single Song for Whoever from their debut album Welcome to the Beautiful South . In October 1990 they had their only number 1 hit with A Little Time . In 1991, the band won the Brit Award for the single in the "Best British Video" category.

At the beginning of 1994, Briana Corrigan got out. In addition to trying to start a solo career, the piece 36D is considered the reason. Corrigan disagreed with the text, which is about scantily clad models and the industry that pays them.

She was replaced by Jacqui Abbott, who can be heard for the first time on the album Miaow , released in April 1994 . The hit collection Carry On up the Charts followed in November 1994 and the album Blue Is the Color in October 1996 , both of which reached number 1. The latter contained a hit single, Don't Marry Her , which was initially boycotted by some radio stations due to unsuitable terms for young people and was later mostly shown in a slightly modified version on the radio: The recurring line of text reads “Don't marry her, fuck me” Radio version "Don't marry her, have me" .

After another top album Quench from 1998, the now alcoholic Paul Heaton took a break and spent some time in Sardinia. There were some parts of the album Painting It Red , which was released in October 2000.

The Beautiful South took a break, during which Abbott left the group and was replaced by Alison Wheeler. It can be heard for the first time on the album Gaze , released in October 2003 , which no longer quite reached the heights of previous chart successes.

In October 2004, Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs followed, an album with cover versions of well-known pieces. The group took the liberty of joking with the piece This Old Skin , which is said to be a song by the group "The Heppelbaums", but is actually a Heaton / Rotheray composition.

On May 8, 2006, the single Manchester was released , a week later the accompanying album Superbi .

The group issued a statement on January 31, 2007 announcing its termination. She thanked her fans for "19 wonderful years of music" and named - probably in an ironic variation of the reason "musical differences" often used in such cases - as the reason "musical similarities".

style

The music of the group - for which the composing team Heaton and Rotheray was mainly responsible - was characterized by demanding lyrics, varied arrangements and the incisive voice of lead singer Paul Heaton.

The New Beautiful South

The group has been operating since January 2009 under the new name “The New Beautiful South”. The cast consists of Dave Hemingway (vocals), Alison Wheeler (vocals), David Stead (drums), Damon Butcher (keyboards), Phil Barton (guitar), Karl Brown (percussion), Steve Nutter (bass) as well as Gaz Birtles and Tony Robinson (brass).

In 2010 the name was changed to "The South".

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1989	Welcome to the Beautiful South	DE16 (27 weeks) DE	-	-	UK2 platinum (26 weeks)UK
1990	choke	DE30 (18 weeks) DE	-	-	UK2 platinum (22 weeks)UK
1992	0898	DE40 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	UK4th gold (17 weeks)UK
1994	Miaow	DE70 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK6th gold (24 weeks)UK
	Carry On up the Charts - The Best of the Beautiful South	DE53 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	UK1 × 6 Six-fold platinum (136 weeks)UK
1996	Blue is the color	-	-	-	UK1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (50 weeks)UK
1998	Quench	DE26 (18 weeks) DE	-	CH28 (3 weeks) CH	UK1 × 3 Triple platinum (42 weeks)UK
2000	Painting It Red	DE37 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	UK2 gold (11 weeks)UK
2001	Solid bronze - great hits	DE77 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK10 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)UK
2003	gauze	-	-	-	UK14th silver (4 weeks)UK
2004	Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs	-	-	-	UK11 gold (9 weeks)UK
2006	Superbi	-	-	-	UK6th silver (5 weeks)UK
2006	gold	-	-	-	UK- silver UK
2007	Soup - Cream Of	-	-	-	UK15th platinum (24 weeks)UK	Beautiful South / Housemartins

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1989	Song for Whoever Welcome to the Beautiful South	DE21 (19 weeks) DE	AT30 (1 week) AT	-	UK2 silver (11 weeks)UK
	You Keep It All In Welcome to the Beautiful South	DE37 (19 weeks) DE	-	-	UK8 (8 weeks) UK
	I'll Sail This Ship Alone Welcome to the Beautiful South	DE74 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK31 (8 weeks) UK
1990	A little time choke	DE47 (16 weeks) DE	AT20 (8 weeks) AT	-	UK1 gold (14 weeks)UK
	My Book Choke	-	-	-	UK43 (6 weeks) UK
1991	Let Love Speak Up Itself Choke	-	-	-	UK51 (3 weeks) UK
1992	Old Red Eyes Is Back 0898	DE51 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK22 (6 weeks) UK
	We Are Each Other 0898	DE81 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK30 (3 weeks) UK
	Bell Bottomed Tear 0898	-	-	-	UK16 (5 weeks) UK
	36D 0898	-	-	-	UK46 (2 weeks) UK
1994	Good As Gold Miaow	DE54 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	UK23 (6 weeks) UK
	Everybody's talkin ' Miaow	-	-	-	UK12 (8 weeks) UK
	Prettiest Eyes Miaow	-	-	-	UK37 (3 weeks) UK
	One Last Love Song Carry On up the Charts - The Best of The Beautiful South	-	-	-	UK14 (9 weeks) UK
	Dream a Little Dream of Me	-	-	CH29 (6 weeks) CH	-	Soundtrack for the film French Kiss
1995	Pretenders to the Throne	-	-	-	UK18 (8 weeks) UK
1996	Rotterdam (Or Anywhere) Blue Is the Color	DE72 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	UK5 silver (9 weeks)UK
	Don't Marry Her Blue Is the Color	DE89 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	UK8th gold (11 weeks)UK
1997	Blackbird on the Wire Blue Is the Color	-	-	-	UK23 (9 weeks) UK
	Liar's Bar Blue Is the Color	-	-	-	UK43 (2 weeks) UK
1998	Perfect 10 quench	DE64 (9 weeks) DE	-	CH47 (3 weeks) CH	UK2 gold (14 weeks)UK
	Dumb quench	-	-	-	UK16 (10 weeks) UK
1999	How Long's a Tear Take to Dry? Quench	-	-	-	UK12 (6 weeks) UK
	The table quench	-	-	-	UK46 (2 weeks) UK
2000	Closer Than Most Painting It Red	-	-	-	UK22 (9 weeks) UK
	The River / Just Checkin ' Painting It Red	-	-	-	UK59 (1 week) UK
2001	The Root of All Evil	-	-	-	UK50 (2 weeks) UK
2003	Just a few things that I ain't gauze	-	-	-	UK30 (2 weeks) UK
	Let go with the flow gauze	-	-	-	UK47 (2 weeks) UK
2004	Livin 'Thing Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs	-	-	-	UK24 (2 weeks) UK
	This Old Skin Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs	-	-	-	UK43 (2 weeks) UK
2005	This Will Be Our Year Golddiggas, Headnodders & Pholk Songs	-	-	-	UK36 (2 weeks) UK
2006	Manchester Superbi	-	-	-	UK41 (3 weeks) UK
	The Rose of My Cologne Superbi	-	-	-	UK99 (1 week) UK

Video albums

• Munch: Our Hits (2002)
• Carry On up the Charts: The Best Of (2008)
• Live in the Forest (2006)

swell

1. ↑ Quotation taken from the booklet of the CD "Gold".
2. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6318345.stm
3. ↑ http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/entertainment/Interview-New-Beautiful-South/article-750143-detail/article.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Sources chart placements: DE AT CH UK
5. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK

Web links

Commons : The Beautiful South  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Beautiful South at laut.de
• The South